This is an analysis of the poem The Newcomer's Wife that begins with:
He paused on the sill of a door ajar
That screened a lively liquor-bar,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc ccXX XcXX ddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100101 11010101 101111101 0011100101 110010001 1110100111 01011101 11010101 11110001 111010111 11110101 110111010 1100101101 01111100 111100101 11010101 111101001 10010101 11110101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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